THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

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2010

April, 2010

• 30 Ryan Howard trilogy

• 30 The Ryan Howard Plan - 8 years ago

• 30 Is ANYONE worth 125MM$ for 5 years, 2 years out, in his mid-30s?

• 30 Ryan Howard’s extension

• 29 Figgins and Lopez

• 29 Value split between pitchers and non-pitchers

• 29 Superiority of AL over NL

• 29 The story of Win Expectancy

• 29 PITCHf/x still inconsistent park to park?

• 29 Reader Mail of the Week: There’s nothing to be wrong about

• 29 NFL play-by-play files

• 29 The case against the W/L record

• 28 Player Won-Loss Records, Part 2

• 28 Do players who sign with their own teams age better than those who don’t?

• 27 With or Without You - At the win/loss game level

• 27 Why you don’t want scouts globally evaluating players

• 27 Ryan Howard

• 27 Player Won-Loss Records

• 27 Daily reliever usage charts

• 27 Mailbag questions

• 26 Harbinger: “Your papers, please”

• 26 Tangotiger v Morgan Ensberg

• 25 Harmonic Mean v Geometric Mean

• 25 When bloggers have good access to MLB management, this is the kind of blog post you get

• 25 Ensberg on etiquette

• 24 The Baseball Codes

• 24 Flexible playoffs systems

• 23 Ben Baumer

• 23 The 100 Pitches Limit

• 23 Unwritten rules that don’t need to be written?

• 23 Platoon splits by pitch type

• 22 “Those are the little things that I don’t think you can see in the box score, ever.”

• 22 Salary caps can be controlled by opposing GMs?

• 22 Bryce Harper’s makeup

• 22 When is the first goal of a period scored?

• 22 Fielding spectrum in college

• 21 Craig Wright on Dick Allen

• 21 “Gamers”

• 21 The phony outrage of PED (in baseball only) continues

• 21 Two-conference, no-division league

• 21 UZR, Release 2010 Version 1

• 21 Bunting pitches high in the strike zone

• 21 Spock

• 20 If you need to send runners home, do it with 2 outs

• 20 Why teams pay equal prices for free agents?

• 20 Tango/ESPN - team spending efficiency

• 20 Do character-guys age better?

• 20 Stress, not fastball speed, is what it costs you to pitch from the stretch

• 20 Union members sending future union members to the wolves is an American tradition?

• 20 Why in the world would All-Star voting begin 2 weeks into the season?

• 19 Could honesty exist in team sports?

• 19 Developing young pitchers

• 19 New Jersey City University

• 19 The 20-inning game

• 19 Psst… wanna work at ESPN?

• 19 Break between innings

• 19 The null hypothsis does not always have to be zero, does it?

• 19 Correlation coefficient in football

• 19 Pitch counts are dumb terminals

• 19 The mainstreaming of fielding stats continues

• 17 What are the odds?

• 17 The quest for 25 wins

• 15 Jackie Robinson

• 15 “I have worked in MLB and my experiences are…”

• 15 Two wins a season for 17 seasons is… almost nothing?!?

• 15 College splits by draftee / non-draftee opponents

• 15 Smokeless tobacco in MLB

• 15 Rational exuberance

• 15 Morgan Ensberg steals home

• 15 To what extent should player agents be informed?

• 14 Tangotiger v Rodney Fort

• 14 Playing the race card on the free agent market

• 14 Psst… wanna work for the Diamondbacks?

• 13 Tango/ESPN - payroll inequity

• 13 Batted Balls: BIS v MLBAM

• 12 Active career leaders in WAR

• 12 Nate Silver on the best NYC neighborhoods

• 12 Hot goalies will win you the Stanley Cup

• 12 Time of Game

• 12 The Science of Hitting, with Saberist Morgan Ensberg

• 12 UZR v PlusMinus

• 12 Apologies for using steroids…

• 11 The face of UZR, the face of Scouting

• 11 Dewan’s numbers now on Fangraphs

• 11 Where are outfielders positioned?

• 10 Dan Kantrovitz

• 09 Number of innings pitched, by domestic/foreign pitchers, since 1969

• 09 A gift subscription to A Page from Baseball’s Past

• 09 Starting Run Expectancy

• 09 The different kinds of curves

• 09 I was just talking about the retirees

• 09 Advisory non-binding legal opinion

• 09 More ERA/FIP forecasting

• 09 Macleans

• 08 Batting Order in the mainstream

• 08 When do pitchers peak?

• 08 Possible radical change in UZR methodology - need advice…

• 07 Branch Rickey

• 07 The umpires’ strike zone, by count

• 07 Testing baseballs

• 07 MLBPA: looking for evidence of wrongdoing

• 07 UZR video

• 06 The 2010 Team Forecasts

• 06 Is batting last an advantage?

• 06 Pitcher batting 8th

• 06 How many service days is a service year?

• 06 Phil on Rodney Fort and academia

• 06 Tango/ESPN - growth in MLB players by domestic/foreign

• 06 No matter how I slice or dice it, pitchers get worse every year…

• 05 Fantastic research by Mike Fast on THT (with some links to other good articles)

• 05 Baseball, a metaphor for… Congress?

• 05 WOWY - playing / not playing

• 05 Forecasters Challenge - trustee needed

• 05 Morgan Ensberg chats with SOSHers

• 05 Two to Four MPH leads to one fewer run per game

• 05 What if… we were wrong?

• 05 The search for r=1

• 05 Three Stars of the Game

• 04 The Canadian Role in Integrating Major League Baseball

• 03 Tom Tippett

• 03 MGL on UZR and MLB

• 02 Sabermetrics, embracing one apostate at a time

• 02 The Perfact Game Theory decision matrix model

• 02 2010 Community Playing Time Forecast - final update

• 02 Yankees outfield fielding alignment

• 02 More ERA# shop talk

• 02 College performance against future pros

• 02 Strasburg-type of analysis

• 02 Cy Young Odds

• 01 Character does influence the performance of other players…

• 01 Tim, Tim, Tim

• 01 Scoops

• 01 Optimal launch angle of bat, by park

• 01 Community Playing Time Forecasts 2010 - last call

• 01 The renewables

• 01 Change in fastball velocity by going from starter to reliever

• 01 Clues

• 01 A very good article by Sky A. on batter tendencies (ability to hit the fastball, curve, etc.)